Google X VP Megan Smith is top candidate for US CTO role — Google's Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer — America is close to getting a new chief technology officer: Megan Smith, a longtime executive at Google Inc. and most recently a vice president at its secret lab, Google X.

Data on 97K Bugzilla users posted online for about three months — The email addresses and encrypted passwords of about 97,000 users of the test build of bug tracking system Bugzilla - specifically landfill.bugzilla.org - were posted publicly online for roughly three months beginning around May 4, according to a Wednesday post.